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American literature and culture in an age of cold war : a critical reassessment /

This text aims at reassessing Cold War culture - both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture may confuse rather than clarify. A collection of the work of cultural critics writing about the period, this book reveals...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Grausam, Daniel, 1975-, Belletto, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.
Series:New American canon.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking Domestic Cultures. Total Literary Awareness : Why Cold War Hooverism Pre-Read Afro-Modernist Writing / William J. Maxwell ; Reviewing Cold War Culture with Edwin Denby / Catherine Gunther Kodat ; Democracy, Decentralization, and Feedback / Daniel Belgrad
  • Domestic Cultures/Global Frames. The New Frontier : Dune, the Middle Class, and Post-1960 U.S. Foreign Policy / Andrew Hoberek ; Cold War Intimacies : Joan Didion and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason / Karen Steigman
  • The Global Cold War. Pyongyang Lost : Counterintelligence and Other Fictions of the Forgotten War / Christine Hong ; The Race War Within : The Biopolitics of the Long Cold War / Leerom Medovoi ; The Empire Strikes Out : Star Wars (IV, V, and VI) and the Advent of Reaganism / Alan Nadel.